Fox News media critic Howard Kurtz believes that if Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “makes misstatements, if he gets involved in self-destructive fights, if he appears to be ignorant on certain issues,” then journalists should “go after that aggressively.” But recently Kurtz has criticized his media colleagues for doing just that.

Kurtz railed against the “obvious distaste, bordering on disgust, that many journalists as well as commentators have for Donald Trump,” pointing to “the last 10 days” of allegedly negative news coverage of Trump as evidence that “it’s almost like the press put out a mob hit on Donald Trump.” He added that the “imbalance is so overwhelming on almost every media site and outlet that it can no longer be denied.” From the August 8 edition of Fox News’ America’s Newsroom:

But Kurtz also conceded that “if Trump makes misstatements, if he gets involved in self-destructive fights, if he appears to be ignorant on certain issues, then you go after that aggressively.”

Trump’s last 10 days have featured a number of stumbles and unforced errors that even conservatives have called out, including his multi-day feud with a Gold Star family, his suggestion that women who are sexually harassed at work should change jobs, and his claims that the 2016 election is “rigged.”

Accordingly, media have, at least for now, dropped the typical “Both Sides” style of journalism that is often peppered with false equivalencies and instead have begun to routinely fact-check Trump and spotlight the disarray in his campaign.

Though Kurtz said on August 7 that Trump “has made mistakes and those should be covered,” he nonetheless criticized journalists for Trump “getting hammered for just about everything.”

On August 1, he highlighted the “enormous media attention” paid to Khizr Khan’s speech denouncing Trump, claiming that the media's negative attitude about Trump's proposed Muslim ban "seems to show in the coverage” of Khan's speech.

And on Kurtz’ own August 7 show, he repeatedly referenced a “titanic tidal wave of negative coverage” and asked panelists if they saw a “flat-out media bias” in the coverage of Trump failing to endorse Paul Ryan, saying he always wanted a Purple Heart, and feuding with the Khan family.

But if Kurtz believes that Trump’s “misstatements,” “self-destructive fights” and ignorance “on certain issues” warrant aggressive media coverage, why did he spend a week sneering at his media colleagues for providing just that sort of reporting?